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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]We also need to stop incentivizing people to have additional children they can’t afford. [/b]Every human interest story I read that is designed to tug at my heart strings just exasperates me more. All these unemployed/underemployed parents with too many mouths to feed! “How on earth am I supposed to feed my 9 children on my PT McDonalds salary??” The fact that these people agree to be interviewed proves they accept zero responsibility for their current plight. [/quote]

Oooh, I have some ideas...

Provide sex education in schools
Provide contraceptives
Make abortion save and legal.[/quote]

Many generational welfare recipients actually want to have kids, we all know why.
Many poor people don’t have the executive function to use contraceptives unless they are like shipped to their home address and administered on the spot. If something requires the smallest effort it’s not done. I actually think this is key to poverty (besides social issues), poor executive function. 
Lastly, many view abortion as a sin so it doesn’t help either [/quote]

Too harsh, but it does appear that being unmarried (esp but not exclusively with kids) dramatically increases the likelihood that one will use SNAP.

Compelling reason for individuals to seek and maintain lifetime partners and for the government to encourage and incentivize this.

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If, as you seem to agree, poor people are poor due to lack of executive function, I don’t see how you could effectively incentivize them to get married by withholding food stamps.[/quote]

What is poor. I see some programs providing benefits at 200, 400, even 800 percent of the poverty level. Does that mean the recipients are "poor", or is the system being gamed when that happens?[/quote]
Where do you see these people and know their precise income?[/quote]

Dp but I think they are talking about program eligibility only.

For snap specifically the threshold is very low (or high?) as in you need to be poor. A single person household gets cut off at about $1800 per month in income. A two person household with $2200 in income (imagine that) gets about $200 per month [/quote]

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